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PREFACE. 
statements of Scripture, more than one paper and discussion referring 
thereto will appear in Volume xiii. In the meantime the following opinions 
will not be without their interest to many 
“We need not, in accepting the Bible narratives of man’s creation, 
repudiate one fact accurately deduced from modern scientific research.” — 
The late Radcliffe Observer (R. Main, 1878). Relig. Hist, of Man, p. 5. 
(See also Preface, Trans., vol. xi.) 
“ Nothing can exceed in truth and grandeur these words (Gen. i.) of the 
inspired historian, * * the most keen-eyed hypercriticism could see 
nothing to object to.” — Ibid., in Replies to Essays and Reviews. (See also 
Trans, vol., xi. p. 431.) 
“ With regard to Physical Science, I think we have seen that its real 
advances are in favour of Religious Faith.” — Ibid., Trans., vol. x. p. 174. 
“ The language of Scripture neither is, nor can be, * * contrary to 
the language of Science.” — Professor Challis, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. 
Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge. Trans., vol. ix. p. 140. 
“ The Bible abounds in illustrative references to natural objects and 
phenomena, * * these are remarkable for their precise truth to nature.” 
—Principal Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. Trans., vol. ix. p. 173. 
“The great discoveries as to the physical constitution and probable 
origin of the universe, the doctrine of the correlation and conservation 
of forces, * * these, and many other aspects of the later progress of 
Science, must tend to bring it back into greater harmony with revealed 
Religion.” — Ibid., in Origin of the World. (See also Preface, Trans., vol. xi.) 
“ There has never been produced in my own mind * * the slightest 
impression that we (he, and those who studied under him) were con- 
sidering facts and laws in any way opposed to Christian Faith, to the 
inferences of Natural Theology, or the deductions from Scripture.” — The 
late Professor Phillips, F.R.S., speaking of his duties as Professor of 
Geology at Oxford. Replies to E. <£' R. (See also Trans., vol. xi. p. 432.) 
“We all admit that the book of Nature and the book of Revelation 
come alike from God, and that, consequently, there can be no real dis- 
crepancy between the two, if rightly interpreted” — Professor G. G. Stokes, 
M.A., F.R.S., &c., Secretary of the Royal Society. (See Preface, Trans. 
vol. V.) 
